let go

downsized

unassigned

uninstalled

involuntarily separated from payroll

released of resources

given a career change opportunity

career transitioned

part of a normal payroll adjustment

a focused reduction

on no-pay status

transitioned

an ongoing effort to streamline operations

part of restructuring

outplaced

rightsized

work reengineered

a strategic misrepresentation

the result of fictitious disorder syndrome

terminological inexactitude

reality augmentation

a misstatement

an inaccurate statement

incomplete information

being economical with the truth

neutralizing

liquidating

collateral damage

servicing the target

decommissioning the aggressor

violence processing

a surgical strike

sanitizing the area

exceeding the threshold of physiological damage

substantive negative outcome

Wayne Grytting, editor of the highly-recommended American Newspeak, a website that chronicles the latest in Orwellian utterances, has called doublespeak "conceptual downsizing."

And yes, believe it or not, all the doublespeak used in this article first appeared in real world contexts by people expecting to be taken seriously.